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helenlouise
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Joined: 07 Jul 2008
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Spot: Yorkshire, UK
Mon Jul 07, 2008 2: 10 pm    Post subject: new n that
hello all
am total new n that
am considering doing the ol ' atkins, will be kicking off in first 2 weeks of august when me parents go on holiday so I can have total control over my menu. Am 20 years old, currently weight about 11 stone, am only around the 5 " 2 mark and have a pretty large firm frame. Am wanting to get down to around 8 1 / 2 - 9 stone mebbes.
Just wondering how much weight I could expect to lose on the induction if I go after it religiously for 2 weeks? Roughly mind? If I do about an hour of cardio every day too. I ' m not exactly clued - up about this whole malarky see, need a tad o encouragement.
Sorry, I have a habit of sounding ridiculously common and northern, I ' ll try tone it down next time round.
Tril
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Joined: 27 May 2008
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Latitude: ( very ) Northeastern USA
Mon Jul 07, 2008 2: 20 pm    Post subject:
" Sorry, I have a habit of sounding ridiculously common and northern, I ' ll try tone it down next time round. "
Don ' t you dare!!! I love it! [ / icon_smile. gif]
Welcome to this forum and to a new low carb lifestyle. No one can predict how much you might lose on Induction. It ' s totally dependent on YOUR body... you ' re blossoming ( which is in your favor ) but you don ' t have a lot ( relatively speaking ) to lose... so you ' ll lose slower. You ' ve never low carbed before so, believe it or not, that can be in your favor. You don ' t seem to be totally clear or ready... not in your favor. I sense that you ' re doing this because you " need " to, not because you ' re ready and want to. See the difference? In the end... just know that if you do it and do it WELL you will lose all that YOUR body can in that time frame. You really can ' t ask for more than that. So if you do start Atkins, really do it. Make a the urge and stick to it. If I were you, I ' d spend the time up until August reading everything I could about low carbing... then conclude if it ' s right for you.
Tril
KypDurron
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Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Posts: 427
Setting: Wisconsin
Mon Jul 07, 2008 2: 20 pm    Post subject:
Theres no real accurate way of predicting how much someone can lose in two weeks but I can predict how much you will put back on if you do induction only and then go back to normal food, which it sounds as if you will do, extrapolating from the insinuation that you don ' t control your own menu when your parents are around.
The number for that is: All you lost plus some more for good measure.
You can indeed NOT go induction to cookies. It ' s like having a New Years party in the nuclear missile silo. Just a really, really, really bad idea.
Trust me. I was on atkins when I had my motorcycle crash, went from 28 carbs a day to a nutrient solution for 8 days, then I started eating cookies and ice cream etc etc after years of atkins.
I gained almost 80 pounds in 4 months, and the first 50 were in 30 days. I ' m not trying to appal you off of atkins, FAR from it
However, it does do physiological changes to your body. When you go on induction, you stop burning carbohydrates, and you start burning fats. If you do induction for two weeks that is fine, but afterwards proceed through the other phases of Atkins, don ' t just step off.
Atkins is definitely not a crash diet solution. Treating it as such would be...... unadvisable.
That being said, atkins works. I can extract to that, as can many others in the forum, and it ' s not nearly as hard to do as other diets out there that require an incredible amount of work. Everything in life that is worth a damn requires work, and not just temporary work, but work great. If it ' s worth something, it requires discipline, thats just an unfortunate but undeniable reality of life.
Atkins is fun though, way more fun than some preposterous low fat diet or something that has you running around in the grocery store buying nasty ass food that has all the fat reduced out of it by being reprocessed 20 times over and sieved through 20 different industrial filters.
As a last note, I would start it NOW, not while your parents are gone. If you plan on doing this while they are gone because they will turn food down your throat when they come back, to put it frankly, your screwed.
Start it now, and put your foot down. This is what I ' m doing, and you ' re gonna deal with it at worst, and support me at best. It ' s your body, and to be frank, no one should be able to force you to eat what they want you to eat, and DEFINITELY not if what they ' re forcing you to eat has made you overweight.
Be tough. Be hardcore.
Nothing in life helps more than being hardcore about something.
Tril
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Joined: 27 May 2008
Posts: 1325
Location: ( very ) Northeastern USA
Mon Jul 07, 2008 2: 26 pm    Post subject:
" Atkins is fun though, way more fun than some ridiculous low fat diet or something that has you running around in the grocery store buying nasty ass food that has all the fat reduced out of it by being reprocessed 20 times over and sieved through 20 different industrial filters. "
ROTFLMAO!
I ' d love to see this on the Atkins ' site. [ / icon_lol. gif] Quite the testimonial, Kyp!
Helen, listen to Kyp... he ' s right. This can ' t be a 2 week " lose what I can while my parents are gone " diet. The good thing about starting while they are gone, though, is that you can be fully into ketosis by the time they get back... and better able to resist the things they will eat that you cannot. I ' m the only person in my immediate ( and extended ) family who low carbs. It ' s much easier to eat low carb in a high carb world when my cravings are under control.
Tril
KypDurron
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Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Location: Wisconsin
Mon Jul 07, 2008 2: 44 pm    Post subject:
Tril has a point there, once you put in a couple weeks and are comfortably on atkins... eating the right things and having burnt out the cravings, its easier to say no thanks when someone tries to hand you something.
helenlouise
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Joined: 07 Jul 2008
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Location: Yorkshire, UK
Mon Jul 07, 2008 2: 46 pm    Post subject:
ah cheers, ee you ' re lovely yous!
why i ' m thinking off kicking it off then is so I ' m in that frame of mind by the time they ' re back if you get me. once i start a diet i ' m fine with it, i lost a about a stone last summer by living in a gymnasium and watching what I was eating, but I wasn ' t really on any sort of diet plan. But don ' t think I can go down that road again, I used to do 2 hours of cardio every day, proper mentalist like. Put half a stone back on last year mainly due to a scummy student lifestyle by drinking too much and eating too many value lasagnes and a bit of heartbreak resulting in reaching for the boyfriends you can rely on, Ben and Jerry. Terrible likes...
I willllllllll stick to it. Must Must Must.
Gonna get me researching face on then. Taaaaaa xx
Tril
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Mon Jul 07, 2008 3: 03 pm    Post subject:
The only thing you can rely on Ben and Jerry for is weight gain. Don ' t get into a rebound relationship with THEM! [ / icon_wink. gif]
KypDurron
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Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Location: Wisconsin
Mon Jul 07, 2008 3: 14 pm    Post subject:
For the record I didn ' t mean to sound super negative on it.
To be honest, I think atkins is easy and you will enjoy being on it... so good luck.
helenlouise
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Joined: 07 Jul 2008
Posts: 4
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Fri Aug 08, 2008 10: 18 am    Post subject: awoooogah
just thought i ' d give a tad o cheeky feedback
well turns out i ' ve lost 6lb or thereabouts since sunday... jeez - o... well sticking to induction for a month...
doesn ' t feel hard at all somehow, don ' t really feel much different. just breakfast i ' m finding a bit of a pain... just want summin light, n not fond of eggs.
well chuffed like... just hope this doesn ' t go down the pan.
boo - yar
bluehex
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Joined: 03 Dec 2003
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Location: Warsaw, Poland
Fri Aug 08, 2008 6: 18 pm    Post subject:
Try the flaxseed hot cereal for breakfast, or pumpkin cereal, or mock danish ( you will find recipes for all of them on the Recipe board )
helenlouise
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Joined: 07 Jul 2008
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Location: Yorkshire, UK
Fri Aug 22, 2008 9: 57 am    Post subject:
12 lb down.... yays!
only 3lb more and i ' ll be under 10stone... aha
still fair bit t go though but hey these things take time i ' m not gonna be kate moss overnight... i ' d need t be taller prettier n cooler for a kickoff... ah sidetracked
2 weeks n i have t doff off all my clothes for a play ( well most of them ) so hopfully it ' ll be a little less grotesque!
play being the graduate... well good... ELAAAAAINE!!
happy bunny... could prob keep on induction for ages.
also i ' m becoming addicted t chocolate indulgence bars... they cost me a bomb... but taste so good for just 2 carbs... mmmm....
jus thought i ' d give some cheeky feedback woop woop
bluehex
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Location: Warsaw, Poland
Fri Aug 22, 2008 3: 54 pm    Post subject:
Careful about the bars. They are NOT 2 carb - much more than that if you look at the nutritional info at teh back - and they can seriously stall your weightloss. People have different reactions to sugar alcohols ( those are the debatable sweeteners in the bars ) but your weightloss is way safer without the bars. Well, maybe one a week. Better, one in two weeks.
mom24kidds
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Joined: 26 Aug 2008
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Location: Too far South
Thu Aug 28, 2008 10: 56 pm    Post subject:
Helenlouise...
You absolutly crack me up! If only I could hear you talk in person. I read what you ' ve written out loud and tried to add the ' ole accent too! It was quite hilarious to hear me....
Good job on the weight loss! I hope you keep it up and don ' t gain any back...
BTW, how much does a stone weigh?
Tanya